"Finikin" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... enterprizing (sic), spirit. The library, though not very ample, is well chosen; but as the prince will admit into it no editions but what are beautiful and pleasing to the eye, and there are, nevertheless, numbers of excellent books that are but indifferently printed, this finikin (sic) and foppish taste makes many disagreeable chasms in this collection. The books are pompously bound in Turkey leather; and two of the most famous book-binders of Paris were expressly sent for to do this work. Bonneval pleasantly told me, that there were ...
— Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M—y W—y M—e • Lady Mary Wortley Montague
... were sent for, who swore They would punish this finikin boy; So Achilles and two or three more, Undertook the destruction of Troy. But Achilles grew quite ungenteel, And prevented their stirring a peg, Till Paris let fly at his heel, And he found himself laid by the leg. ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10, - Issue 284, November 24, 1827 • Various
... long as it ain't mere finikin," said the lady graciously, "and seems to bring the folks and their vittles nearer together—we'll try it to-day. It does look kinder CITYFIED—and I reckoned that was all the good it was. But I calkilated you were goin' to check ...
— A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories • Bret Harte |
